Silent news regarding layoffs or performance management?

Hello,

I'm kind of out of the loop of most things in PS. I'm new, young, and hardly have the knowledge about how things work BTS or what's being floated around.

I have been hearing things like "they are finally paying close attention to who's performing well or not". "They are micromanaging now".

"IT is closely monitoring whatever backend data they can ethically use to assess our productivity"

"Younger folks and those with lower tenures (years worked) are under more scrutiny and could be laid off first".

Now I have ZERO way of knowing what's noise and what's real. Is there something that has gone around with management to do this stuff and maybe one of the nice managers shared it with one of you (and their teams)?

I only ask this cuz a lot of actions make it seem like they want people to leave PS.

TIA!